Even arriving at the sumptuous Dolder Grand makes you feel better: the Mercedes S-Class, lined in soft champagne leather, purrs up, 15 minutes from Zurich’s airport. The hilltop 1899-vintage fairytale turreted castle, pride of the lush four-hectare estate, is flanked by Norman Foster’s four-storey moustache-like wings.

The Leading Hotels of the World Roadshow is coming to town, and to mark the occasion, three of the association’s European members – The Dolder Grand of Zurich, Badrutt’s Palace of St Moritz and La Réserve Paris – made time to sit down with Signature Media’s CEO & Group Editor, Cathy Wagstaff, and their Australian PR representative, Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan of Five Star PR.